Since the beginning of our cinema history. Anglo Indian women proved they were heroine material. As more and more Hindu and Muslim women joined the fray, they were pushed to taking smaller roles. But, back to the '30s."The dance by Yonne Harroll was not well shot. The girl looks 'sexy'...but this element was not exploited in His Higness." a critic laments. Another moans, Mlle. Diamond Newby gave a beautiful Indianised dance, but too short!" However, all was not alas and alack for the brunette beauty."Pupil of Ripman's School of Dancing, London, Mademoiselle Diamond threatens to wrest the monopoly od Oriental Dances by her engagements on the Indian screen." She was "Grace with a vengeance of beauty and youth thrown in."

- Filmfare July 1-15, 1988 celebrating 75 years of Indian Cinema.

There is not a single bit of info. available online about these women.

Tough chance anyone of those is going to claim a seat. But the reservation for them remains in UP state roadway buses.

Gajendra Moksha symbolism at a Sikh Gurudwara in Agra.

Reached Delhi just before midnight. Got off at Badarpur border and hitched a ride in a cab onway to Gurgaon. The roads were still alive. Young boys on bikes, three on almost each one of them, all screaming, 'Nara-E-Takbeer' and answering their own calls with 'Allah-o-Akbar'. Men walking back home, waving at vehicles to stop, asking for destinations, hitching rides. It was Shab-e-Barat...the night of records, the night of assignment and the night of deliverance, the night of ancestors.
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A woman, her head covered, like she was on her way to a temple, praying aloud for the welfare of her family, like at a temple, walked past me and entered the chamber that is believed to house the grave of Akbar. The unconventionally plain walled chamber in fact houses the cenotaph of Akbar the Great.

The tainted spot where tourists test the 'Mughal Telephone'.

Completed in around 1613, the mausoleums built to Abkar's syncratic taste, is believed to be the first Indian monument to have included the 'four minaret' design today associated with Taj Mahal.

In most of the images of the mausoleum drawn by early western visitors to this site, the minarets look damaged with the top part missing in all minarets, even as late as 1875. [ref. images at columbia.edu]

According to 'A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood' by E. B. Havell, the minarets were believed to have been broken by Jats. In the popular narrative of Indian Hi…

A guy put a chaddar over my head and starting chanting something about banishing 'Kala Saitan'. 'No, No, not the Kala Shaitan. Not the Chaddar,' I wanted to shout. The poet Guide repeated for the nth time: AKBAR THREE WIFE. ONE HINDU. ONE CHRISTIAN. ONE MISLIM. NO SON. AKBAR GOT SALIM ONLY BECAUSE OF SALIM CHISTI. NO SALIM CHISTI. NO SALIM. NO FATEHPUR SIKRI. NO TAJ MAHAL. In that instant, I realized what had happened. One moment, I was checking out a Chaddar portfolio with pictures of Tina Ambani, Shahid Kapoor and likes, and the next moment I was owner of a Chaddar sold in the name of poor women, not necessarily Muslim ( I was promisingly informed) who can't afford to get married.

The scene was later repeated at the grave of Salim Chisti's kid son. SON CONVINCED SALIM CHISTI TO HELP AKBAR. YOUNG KID. TOO YOUNG TO TALK. BUT STARTED TALKING. DIVINE. AND THEN DIED. NO SON. NO AKBAR"S SON. NO SALIM. NO TAJ MAHAL.NO. THIS ONE ONLY FOR 150.